Re: [PATCH v3] mm: fix tick timer stall during deferred page init

From: Pavel Tatashin
Date: Wed Apr 01 2020 - 12:52:13 EST


> > I do not remember seeing any real failures, this was a theoretical
> > window. So, we could potentially simply remove these locks until we
> > see a real boot failure in some interrupt thread. The allocation has
> > to be rather large as well.
>
> Yes please! We are really great at over complicating and over
> engineering stuff based on theoretical issues and build on top of that
> and make the code even more complex because nobody dares to re-evaluate
> and so on.

I will submit a patch (or revert) whichever is cleaner.

Pasha